Sharon flies to Tuscon to help her father-in-law who is drinking too much after the death of his wife. Sharon soon realized that 'dad' is horny and she is too and although against her better judgment an affair starts.
A Swarm Cycle Story
A trip to Tulakat (a blockaded Sa'arm world) and a grunt's eye view of the war on the ground there and home life at the nearby Marine base at Truman. 'The Mercury Incident' is recommended reading first. A Swarm Cycle Story
52 year old Sara travels with her husband to Oceanside, Ca, a Marine Corps town. Left alone on a Saturday she goes out for lunch and makes friends with several Marines and ends up having a special relationship with one in particular, a young man called John.